TO DUST is about Shmuel Rosenblum, a Hasidic Cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, who has a desperate need to understand how his wife's body will decay. As a growing and clandestine partnership develops with Albert Pendergrast, a local community college biology professor, the two depart on a figurative and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.